BIOGRAPHIES:  Wesley W. GUE, Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Wesley W. Gue, farmer, P. O. Durand, was born in Weston township,
Oneida county, N. Y., July 11, 1844, a son of David C. and Lusina
(Jillson) Gue.  Two brothers came from France and settled in New York
city in 1723, from one of whom, named David Gue, our subject, is
descended.  His grandfather, who also bore the name of David, married a
daughter of John Combs.  David C. Gue was born in Ulster county, N. Y.,
in 1800.  He was married at Booneville, N. Y., where Mrs. Lusina Gue
was born.  Her parents, Levin and Chloe (Ballov) Jillson, were born in
Massachusetts.  Two brothers of the Jillson family were among the early
Puritan fathers.  Our subject represents the eleventh generation of the
family in America.  Mr. and Mrs. David C. Gue were blessed with eight
children besides our subject:  Mary (Mrs. M. Burney), Jerome B.,
Elizabeth (Mrs. G. Brower), Miranda (Mrs. E. O. Baker), Sally, Minerva,
Melinda (Mrs. D. Robbins) and Floretta (Mrs. G. Ufford).  When our
subject was two years old the family removed to Lee township, Oneida
county, and in 1860 came to Eau Claire, and three years later to Lima
township, where Mr. Gue's death occurred February 6, 1866.  Mrs. Lusina
Gue still resides here at the venerable age of eighty-seven years.  She
was the second child of a family of thirteen.

Our subject attended Eau Claire public school, and at twenty-one years
of age began life as a farmer.  He married, January 12, 1871, Mary S.
Millish, who was born at Oakland, Jefferson county, Wis.  Their
children are Maude, Frank, Claude and Mary Etta.  About twelve years
ago, Mr. Gue purchased the homestead farm where he has since resided. 
He devotes the farm chiefly to dairying and breeding Poland China
swine.  He is a republican politically, and has served the town as
supervisor, etc.  He is a Spiritualist by faith and a member of the
order of A. F. and A. M.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 734-735.


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